Protein Powerhouse Partners With WhyHunger and Celebrity Chefs to Close the Nutrition Gap Orgain, one of the nation’s fastest growing organic protein and nutrition companies, and WhyHunger, have partnered on a nationwide #ShakeHunger campaign to help close the nutrition gap in the United States and work on long-term solutions to hunger. Together with some of the food world’s most notable
07-06-2018
Warm weather is here and while it’s nice to look forward to picnics and barbeques, the unsettling fact is, that summer is the hungriest time of year for children. It makes sense. A reported daily average of 30 million kids in the U.S. rely on free or reduced-price school meals to get the nutrition they need, so when school is
05-06-2018
We know that women are disproportionally affected by hunger around the globe and that mothers are often the ones on the frontlines leading the resistance and creating local solutions to hunger and its root causes. To recognize and honor Mother’s Day we’re highlighting a few awesome moms we know through our work in the food justice movement that are making
10-05-2018
At the Rural Legal Centre’s office in the Nkqubela Township, outside of Robertson, Western Cape, our group of delegates listened in silence to the migrant farmworkers who had joined us for lunch. They told us how they had recently been injured on the job and were unable to work. They shared how the dangerous and exploitative conditions farmworkers like them
08-05-2018
A delegation of seven African American, Latinx, and Mexican farmers and farmworkers from the US, including WhyHunger’s own Corbin Laedlein, traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to participate in the second South Africa-US Agroecology Exchange co-organized by members of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance. This is the first in an article series by participants, co-produced by WhyHunger and Community Alliance for Global Justice. This refection was
19-04-2018
Let’s cut to the chase. The social contract between our government and its people is hanging on by a thread. If the recent draft Farm Bill presented in the House of Representatives, which would dramatically increase food insecurity, harm working families and slash support for small scale and organic farmers, is any indication of the strength of that last thread
17-04-2018
A delegation of seven African American, Latinx, and Mexican farmers and farmworkers from the US, including WhyHunger’s own Corbin Laedlein, traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to participate in the second South Africa-US Agroecology Exchange co-organized by members of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance. This is the first in an article series by participants, co-produced by WhyHunger and Community Alliance for Global Justice. This refection was
03-04-2018
At WhyHunger we know it’s important to stay critically informed on the issues related to hunger and poverty, while also uplifting the voices, stories and successes of grassroots food justice advocates. So, every couple of weeks we’ll be sharing a compilation of articles that highlight the intersections of racial, social and environmental justice to spur conversations and keep you up-to-date
30-03-2018
This article was originally published on Medium. Some twenty years ago I gave a keynote speech for the annual meeting of the National Student Campaign against Hunger and Homelessness. The discussion that followed and the concerns of the students were about hungry Americans “out there” and hungry people around the world. No one talked about hungry students. Things have changed.
27-03-2018
Guest post written by Paola Diaz. Driving into el pueblito1 that is Viotá, Cundinamarca, located in the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia. The breeze is crisp, the air liberated from city pollution, the scene dominated by green. Further into el campo2 the ride gets progressively bumpier, the pavement rockier. The road curves and loops, hugging the mountain it’s built on. Its
21-03-2018
Protein Powerhouse Partners With WhyHunger and Celebrity Chefs to Close the Nutrition Gap Orgain, one of the nation’s fastest growing organic protein and nutrition companies, and WhyHunger, have partnered on a nationwide #ShakeHunger campaign to help close the nutrition gap in the United States and work on long-term solutions to hunger. Together with some of the food world’s most notable
07-06-2018
Warm weather is here and while it’s nice to look forward to picnics and barbeques, the unsettling fact is, that summer is the hungriest time of year for children. It makes sense. A reported daily average of 30 million kids in the U.S. rely on free or reduced-price school meals to get the nutrition they need, so when school is
05-06-2018
We know that women are disproportionally affected by hunger around the globe and that mothers are often the ones on the frontlines leading the resistance and creating local solutions to hunger and its root causes. To recognize and honor Mother’s Day we’re highlighting a few awesome moms we know through our work in the food justice movement that are making
10-05-2018
At the Rural Legal Centre’s office in the Nkqubela Township, outside of Robertson, Western Cape, our group of delegates listened in silence to the migrant farmworkers who had joined us for lunch. They told us how they had recently been injured on the job and were unable to work. They shared how the dangerous and exploitative conditions farmworkers like them
08-05-2018
A delegation of seven African American, Latinx, and Mexican farmers and farmworkers from the US, including WhyHunger’s own Corbin Laedlein, traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to participate in the second South Africa-US Agroecology Exchange co-organized by members of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance. This is the first in an article series by participants, co-produced by WhyHunger and Community Alliance for Global Justice. This refection was
19-04-2018
Let’s cut to the chase. The social contract between our government and its people is hanging on by a thread. If the recent draft Farm Bill presented in the House of Representatives, which would dramatically increase food insecurity, harm working families and slash support for small scale and organic farmers, is any indication of the strength of that last thread
17-04-2018
A delegation of seven African American, Latinx, and Mexican farmers and farmworkers from the US, including WhyHunger’s own Corbin Laedlein, traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to participate in the second South Africa-US Agroecology Exchange co-organized by members of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance. This is the first in an article series by participants, co-produced by WhyHunger and Community Alliance for Global Justice. This refection was
03-04-2018
At WhyHunger we know it’s important to stay critically informed on the issues related to hunger and poverty, while also uplifting the voices, stories and successes of grassroots food justice advocates. So, every couple of weeks we’ll be sharing a compilation of articles that highlight the intersections of racial, social and environmental justice to spur conversations and keep you up-to-date
30-03-2018
This article was originally published on Medium. Some twenty years ago I gave a keynote speech for the annual meeting of the National Student Campaign against Hunger and Homelessness. The discussion that followed and the concerns of the students were about hungry Americans “out there” and hungry people around the world. No one talked about hungry students. Things have changed.
27-03-2018
Guest post written by Paola Diaz. Driving into el pueblito1 that is Viotá, Cundinamarca, located in the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia. The breeze is crisp, the air liberated from city pollution, the scene dominated by green. Further into el campo2 the ride gets progressively bumpier, the pavement rockier. The road curves and loops, hugging the mountain it’s built on. Its
21-03-2018